GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD WIN A LUXURY CROSS PEN

ACROSS

1 U.S. Secret Service code name for ex-president Barack Obama (8)

5 Ancient Greek city that was the seat of King Oedipus (6)

10 George, English mountaineer who disappeared on Mount Everest in 1924 (7)

11 2021 animated musical fantasy comedy film about a Colombian family, the Madrigals (7)

12 A circular loop at the end of a piece of rope or wire (5)

13 Calista, U.S. actress who played the title character in Ally McBeal (9)

14 English actor noted for his TV travel series around the islands of Australia and the U.S. (6,6)

18 U.S. city that was devastated by a major earthquake in 1906 (3,9)

21 Bassist of rock band Blur, noted for his love of cheesemaking (4,5)

23 ____ Valley, French wine-producing region whose appellations include Hermitage (5)

24 Peptide hormone that controls the concentration of glucose in the blood (7)

25 Very small when describing a price or charge (7)

26 ____ Borgnine, Oscarwinning film actor who starred in TV action drama Airwolf (6)

27 A person who reports others’ wrongdoing or reveals their secrets (8)

DOWN

1 City on Italy’s Adriatic coast that includes the Tiberius Bridge (6)

2 Horatio, naval commander who had a love affair with Emma, Lady Hamilton (6)

3 Annual event held in Nottingham in October, noted for its rides and games (5,4)

4 Another name for

Yom Kippur (3,2,9)

6 A diacritical mark like an inverted circumflex, used in Slavonic languages (5)

7 A large coloured handkerchief, typically with white spots, worn tied around the head or neck (8)

8 Nationality of runner Laura Muir, born in 1993 (8)

9 Military observation of a region to locate an enemy or identify strategic features (14)

15 ____ glands, ones that are almond-shaped and secrete tears (9)

16 Dangerously radioactive element whose name derives from the Greek for ‘unstable’ (8)

17 Phrase meaning ‘actually present’ (2,6)

19 Cockney rhyming slang for a piano (6)

20 Ann, British print journalist noted for her dry wit, who was made DBE in 2006 (6)

22 ____ Hudson, English archaeologist who presents the TV series Escape To The Country (5)